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field definition - telecom
Synonymous with data field. 1. A location or area in which certain data is located within a block or frame of transmitted data. See also block and frame. 2. A location or area in which certain data is located on a storage medium, particularly in a database record.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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